ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[Fran]

From IMDb:  Overall, the documentary "Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse" is a masterpiece. It takes us from her childhood in Cincinnati through her move with her mother to New York City to her audition for Mr. B (George Balanchine), and on to both her first and second tenures with the NYC Ballet and her stay in Brussels with Maurice Bejart in between from the late 60's through about '74. The interviews with Paul Mejia (former husband), Maurice Bejart, Jacques d'Amboise, Edward Villella, Arthur Mitchell, her own mother, and of course Suzanne Farrell herself were so honest, insightful, and very poignant.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Wow, Fran, thank kew for posting "Pas de Deux" by Norman McLaren. I saw this film once bfore, in an intro to film class in college, and the feeling I got when the male figure appeared in the left of the screen, I just felt again. It was an amazing experence for an 18 year old who had little exposure to the arts. I never thought of dance the same again. 

[Fran]

Wow, Fran, thank kew for posting "Pas de Deux" by Norman McLaren. I saw this film once bfore, in an intro to film class in college, and the feeling I got when the male figure appeared in the left of the screen, I just felt again. It was an amazing experence for an 18 year old who had little exposure to the arts. I never thought of dance the same again. 

You're welcome, Truman.

Here's Part 2:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHQIfPbeoBw[/youtube]

Time 4:17

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Thanks Fran, i am going to post one of his films, "Neighbors" on my blog, if you'd like to check it out!

[Meryl]

In a tavern in Nuremberg, the young Hoffmann (Robert Rounseville) tells three stories of past loves (played by Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tchérina, and Anne Ayars). He recounts the stories during the interval of a ballet, which stars his new love Stella (also played by Shearer). Léonide Massine and Robert Helpmann have roles in each story.

[Fran]

Thanks Fran, i am going to post one of his films, "Neighbors" on my blog, if you'd like to check it out!

And now it's my turn to thank you.

Thank you, Truman.

[oilgun]

Plot:  Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through the historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor at an anti-famine concert

[Fran]

From IMDb:  Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.

[southendmd]

Plot:  Actually, Popeye and Bluto are already there. They visit a nightclub, where the featured singer/dancer is, of course, Olive Oyl. Both of the boys instantly fall for her, but she only has eyes for Popeye. Bluto figures he'll get his revenge by claiming the awkward Popeye is a champion samba dancer. He tries to fake it, and to hide from the spotlight, but no luck, until he breaks out the spinach. Bluto tries various other ways to sabotage his dancing, but the spinach-powered Popeye is too fleet of foot for Bluto to do any harm. In a final twirl with Olive, they end up with their clothes swapped.

[southendmd]

With a very young Christian Bale!

IMDb:  Kids all over the world and all through time want to rebel. Peter Muller (Robert Sean Leonard) and Thomas Berger (Christian Bale) are two such young men whose rebellion against the conformity of Nazi Germany took the form of a love of American swing music, British fashion, and Harlem slang. But when an innocent prank forces Peter into the Hitler Youth, their friendship and their loyalties are put to the test against the seductive power of Nazism.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC2bOgb9tek[/youtube]

Anyone care to Lindy Hop?